A Wandering Botanist

garden hyacinth, Hyacinthus orientalis Hyacinth is the name of a particular plant, the three species of the genus Hyacinthus (asparagu...

Common names are so inconsistent! It seems like every plant I look up has two or three common names.    Do you call this Louisiana sagewo...

The new orchid sat on the table, long sprays of flowers with big white petals with purple spots bending in a graceful arc above large gr...

We traveled the northern part of the main island of Japan, Honshu, in April 2017. These photos are from the second half of the trip. (fi...

In April two years ago, I traveled in northern Japan with the Pacific Horticulture Society . Somehow I never described about that wonderf...

geranium, genus Pelargonium Geraniums were introduced to American gardens by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and were a hit. I certainly ...

Native to the rainforest of Costa Rica, heliconia or lobster claw (genus Heliconia , heliconia family, Heliconiaceae) I first went to ...